Heterogeneous reduction of carbon dioxide by hydride-terminated silicon nanocrystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sun, Wei ^a   Qian, Chenxi ^a   He, Le ^a,b   Ghuman, Kulbir Kaur ^a   Wong, Annabelle P Y ^a   Jia, Jia ^a   Ali, Feysal M ^a   O'Brien, Paul G ^a   Reyes, Laura M ^a   Wood, Thomas E ^a   Helmy, Amr S ^a   Mims, Charles A ^a   Singh, Chandra Veer ^a   Ozin, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FUEL; HYDROGEN; NANOCRYSTAL; REDUCING AGENT; SILICON;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; DIAMETER; NANOPARTICLE; NEAR INFRARED; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REDUCTION; SILICON; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYST; CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS; HYDROSILYLATION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE AREA; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84984698629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12553     Document Type: Article

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